Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-01-22
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\ Theairicai rroops q i,chiy Disb banded in the
Black uuIs-rbe Cause.

a Theatrical rroups q i,chi ~ nj banded in ths
Black Hiis-rbs Cause.
Sidney tNeb Corr. n, Y. Sun.
Two or three weeks ago Aleck Bosu.
stow, q well.known manager OF theatrical
enterprises In the West, went Into the
Black HILLS country with G small troupe
of variety performers, most OF the mem bers
1t which were young women. He arrived
| here last night from the Hills with more
money than he knew what to do with, and
announced that he would organ'zs another
company and go back there ss soon AZ possi.
Ole. 10 the Attractions that he had with him
. month ago are not IN be seen In the vicinity
he was asked what had be,ome of them.
"The women are all up In the HIS" he
replied, 'eyery one OF them. Thats the
beauty Of the hing. We opened first at
Rapid ely and had q treme ndous house.
Everybody 10 tom was there. After the
audience marched in body to our hotel and
serenaded us. Tne next night the same
crowd was there, and whom the performance
was over II escorted us 70 the tavern. This
thing was continued until the end OF the en-.
gagement, and when We set out for Lead
City about fifty OF the boys In Rapid followed
after and attended the opening performance
there. Some OF them remained until we got
through there and accompanied us to Dead.
wood, many of the Lasi City lsds going
over, too At Dsadwood we had some
trouble. One Of my best dancers and singers
had been pursued by q Rapid City man aud
had consented TO marry him. He was deter
mined to have her leave the company at
once, and when ] was laboring with her the
others came up and said that they also bad
oilers which they were thinking about &C.
ceptiDg. / saw that thers was nothing but
ruin ahead Of me unless ! c-uld head off this
thing, and 30 told the girls that while they
we're looking out for thensei yes they should
not forget me l had brought them into the
promised land, aud WAS deserving OF con.
sidersie treatment You see, had always
m a
felt friendly toward me. My proposition was
that tho girls who wanted to accept offers of
marriage should do 30, but that they should
inform their admirers that they were under
contract with me for one year, and that these
contracts could be broken only by the pay.
ment Of a forfeit OF 1850 They agreed to this,
and / insisted on nothing but that they
should all hang together and go with me to
Sturais, where we would disband.
"WHh this understanding III we set out for
S'urgis The boys from Rapid City, Lead
CITY and Dssdwood followed us, and at Stur-
gis had the best houses o! the season. 1t |
beat anything you ever saw, ! was on the |
door. and they showed dollars at me until |
couldn't get away with them. After three
nights Of Lhts sort OF thing We disbanded |
every lady In the company was married, and |
got $3.50 TOR each one of them. AS to one Of L
the girls, guess she was the prettisst one,
onuld have sold her release half dozen
times over. One man finally did pay me the
amount on condition that II he didn't get her
Npulu fo'unu IL sue married ulm, De |
lisve, and 1 presume will have TO set,ie
with the other fellow when l 60 back. Yes.
/ IN going back there, you bet just a. SION |
IS can get another com psny together will
try it again No, I'm not exactly in the mat |
rinonial agency business, but 1t does look |
that way little, for fact On the next trip
intend to put II into the contract that any
body leaving the company before the end Of
he engagement shall forfeit $3.50. In this
way / will make sure OF making a little |
money. 1t was nothing but sheer good |
1ature on the part Of the girls that enabled
ne to lay up q cent OH this tfp My com. |
pany would have melted away like = snow |
Jsuk In July IL the women hadu't been in
,liued to do the fair thing by me.
"Tae lovemakiiiS of these fellows IA abso-
u'sly Irresistible. l never SAW anything |
ike It 1t httters q woman half 10 death
Cney hang aronnd aud look at her. and off r |
u do all sorts Of favois for her. One Of my |
aides went to the post ofii,s In S,urgis sud
ecalved a couple Of newsp papers from Rapid
)ity containing some favorable mention of
iAr performance, and when she started To rs. |
urn to the hotel three or four chaps offered
o carry them for her, one OF them say Ing as
,e, with greater boldbess than the rest,
e'z-d the papers, that mo woman don't
AIRY no freight In this town. rm going
lack there, you bet."